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XIII, No. 12.) In considering the quantity of wheat produced in 

 these States the amount required for home consumption is an ele- 

 ment to be noted. The estimated per capita consumption of wheat 

 in the United States for the fiscal years 1902-1904, inclusive, was 

 6.23 bushels, including the amount required for seed. 



It is in the country lying west of the Mississippi River, north 

 of Oklahoma, and east of the Rocky Mountains that most of the 

 surplus wheat of the United States is produced. From the fields of 

 this region, as well as from others where the production is relatively 

 smaller, wheat is gathered in large quantities into certain trade cen- 

 ters. Owing to the great quantity of flour manufactured in that city, 

 the receipts of wheat at Minneapolis are larger than those of any 

 other city in the United States. The receipts of wheat during the 

 calendar year 1904 at Minneapolis amounted to 87,000,000 bushels, 

 or 19,000,000 bushels more than were produced that year in Min- 

 nesota. At Kansas City, the second wheat center of the United 

 States, the receipts in 1904 were 39,000,000 bushels. At Duluth, 

 Buffalo, Chicago, and St. Louis the receipts were from 23,000,000 

 bushels to 27,000,000 bushels each. 



A matter of importance between 1899 and 1904 was the marked 

 increase in the receipts of wheat at Kansas City and St. Louis, the 

 absence of any increase at Minneapolis and Chicago, and the actual 

 decline at Duluth. It appears, therefore, that the growth in the 

 wheat centers is taking place rather in the Southwest than in the 

 North. The receipts of wheat flour at the leading trade centers in 

 the interior are greatest at Minneapolis and next at Chicago, while 

 those at Kansas City and St. Louis appear comparatively small. 



Somewhat different in character from these important interior 

 points of concentration is Buffalo. At Chicago, St. Louis, and other 

 centers wheat is collected almost directly from the various railroad 

 stations near the wheat fields, but at Buffalo the receipts of grain are 

 from western trade centers, such as Chicago, Duluth, and Toledo, 

 and the grain received at Buffalo to a large extent is forwarded to 

 New York and other Atlantic seaports. 



Corn was grown in the United States in 1909 on over 98,000,000 

 acres, the total crop amounting to more than 2,550,000,000 bushels. 



The largest acreage in corn was found in 1909, in the States of 

 Illinois, Iowa and Kansas, in the order named; these three States 

 combined having an acreage in corn of 27,384,278 acres, or rather 

 more than one-fourth of the total area planted in corn. In acreage, 

 the ten States ranking highest in 1909 were: 1, Illinois; 2, Iowa; 3, 

 Kansas; 4, Nebraska; 5, Missouri; 6, Oklahoma; 7, Texas; 8, In- 

 diana; 9, Ohio; 10, Kentucky. 



In production, the ten States of highest rank were: 1, Illinois; 

 2, Iowa; 3, Indiana; 4, Missouri; 5, Nebraska; 6, Ohio; 7, Kansas; 

 8, Oklahoma; 9, Kentucky; 10, Texas. 



The acreage in the United States devoted to the cultivation of 

 oats in 1909 was 35,159,127 acres. The total production of oats in 

 that year was 1,007,129,447 bushels. The largest acreage was found 

 in Iowa and Illinois, these two States combined having 8,831,639 



